Yes, sadly true. Eek, though, you wanna call thin forms “idealized” ones? Small point, I know. I’m a stickler. Very interesting, important to have these things shown, I like it. It is interesting though, that whilst a fascination with athleticism would imply uber health, a lot of what has been glorified is not strength or health. I saw a statistic that if a real woman had the BMI of the average shop mannequin, then she would have stopped menstruating from malnutrition (the article finished wth the beautiful line “let’s start seeing mannequins for what they are, MODELS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DYING”). Something my fitness guru stepdad always says about the new “Charlie’s Angels” films and other such things is that there is no way girls of that size could exhibit such strength.

I have a link to that video in the comments of one of my posts. Amazing what makeup and artists can do, isn’t it? Girls I’ve known have put on so much powder to hide their acne, but acne was never a big problem for me.